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Established: 1992
Head Office: Kathmandu
Country Director: Bill Collis
Staff: 106 (approx.)
 

IDE has been working in Nepal since 1992. IDE programs take a market-based approach by creating sustainable market systems that improve access to clean water, micro-irrigation, diversified agriculture, and economic opportunities. IDE in Nepal has about 106 staff and is implementing 10 projects in more than 24 districts covering the plains, hills and mountains. The program objective is sustained poverty alleviation through market participation of the poor as producers, buyers and sellers of products and services.

Since 1992, IDE Nepal’s programs have reached more than 150,000 farmers – helping farmers to generate an average net additional income of $200 per year. IDE’s program in Nepal has also resulted in the sale of more than 25,000 drip systems and 100,000 treadle pumps. IDE Nepal currently has a yearly program budget of $1.2 million.

Key Strategies

  • Integration of rural farmers, including women and disadvantaged groups, into smallholder agriculture markets
  • Sectors: vegetable, fruit, non-timber forest products, poultry, fish, coffee, tea, goat, pig, dairy, spices, honey.
  • Introduction of micro irrigation and other small scale water technologies
  • Introduction of drinking water technologies

Approaches

  • Developing value chains
  • Designing low-cost appropriate technologies
  • Strengthening the private sector
  • Marketing in rural areas
  • Strengthening and mobilizing groups
  • Building group, farmer and local NGO capacity
  • Linking with the government
  • Providing access to financing
  • Building partnerships and collaboration
  • Advancing community decision making

Cross Cutting Themes

  • Working in Conflict
  • Empowering Women and Disadvantaged Groups
  • Natural Resource Management
  • Livelihood Rights
  • Nutrition and Health

Technologies

  • Micro-irrigation
  • Multiple use systems
  • Water filtration
  • Water storage
  • Post harvest processing
  • Other agro technologies, such as greenhouses and hail storm protection


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CONTACT

IDE- Nepal
P.O.Box 2764, Bakhundole, Lalitpur
Kathmandu, Nepal

Phone: 977 1 5520943
Contact: Bill Collis
E-mail: wjcollis@idenepal.org
 

IDE Appoints CEO
(May 5, 2008) At its recent meeting, IDE’s Board of Directors approved the appointment of Al Doerksen as Chief Executive Officer of the international non-profit organization. Doerksen has previously been associated with IDE in several capacities, including long time board membership, management consulting for the executive in 2007, and most recently overseeing IDE’s four year, $27 million India microirrigation program.

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Polak's Out of Poverty Now Available
(February 15, 2008) In this hard-hitting new book,IDE Founder Paul Polak tells why traditional poverty eradication programs have fallen so short, and how he and his organization developed an alternative approach that has succeeded in lifting 17 million people out of poverty...

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IDE Receives Second Grant From Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
(January 25, 2008) IDE today announced a grant of $27 million over four years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in support of its micro-irrigation programs for Indian smallholder farmers...

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IDE Photographs on Display
(September 1, 2007) Over the coming months, photos from IDE field programs will be on display at Denver-area businesses to help raise awareness of our work...

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Cirque du Soleil™ Event Raises Funds
(July 15, 2007) The June 28 performance of Cirque du Soleil's™ Corteo at Denver's Pepsi Center helped raise funds to support its programs in Africa and Asia. IDE's allotment of 200 tickets completely sold out...

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